16.8. Other Operating Systems

The Network Configuration module is also available on several other operating systems, with options fairly similar to those of Linux. Due to the different features supported by network configuration files on other versions of UNIX, in some sections the user interface is quite different. The supported systems and the variations between them and Linux are:

Sun Solaris and SCO UnixWare

  • When editing a boot-time network interface, all that can be changed is the IP address.

  • The boot-time settings for the loopback interface cannot be edited at all. Both operating systems always enable it at boot with the IP address 127.0.0.1.

  • On the routing and gateways page, multiple default routers can be entered. There is no need to specify ...

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